Word: funds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business of the meeting will be the announcement of the election of the overseers of Harvard College, the directors of the Alumni Association and of the Harvard Fund Council. There will be various speeches by recipients of honorary degrees and President Lowell will deliver his annual speech announcing the gifts to the University during the year which is now coming to a conclusion. Allston Burr '89, President of the Alumni Association, will preside...
Four fellowships have been awarded under the Sheldon Fund for travel and study abroad. Two of the recipients of these awards graduated Magna and two Summa cum laude. The income from the Sheldon Fund is distributed annually, and beside awards under the Fund to graduate students there are a number of grants made to Seniors who graduate with high standing and are eager to pursue their studies further...
...further award was announced at the same time that of a traveling scholarship to Edward Osborne Bassett of Watertown, who graduated magna cum Laude in Economics. This award was made possible by a surplus in the Shaw Fund...
...secure a very large Italian collection had to be declined because the necessary money could not be secured. This loss has now bee mitigated to some extent through the rapid growth of the Italian collection in the library, made possible by the establishment by Mrs. Nash of a substantial fund in memory of Professor Bennett Hubbard Nash...
...least two decades had an active interest in modern printing, of which the Charles Eliot Norton library contained a number of important examples. To these, specimens of the productions of such noteworthy presses as the Merrymount, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Daniel, and Dun Emer, have been added as funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor Sachs gave his collection of the work of Bruce Rogers, that Typography was recognized as a distinct subject for which the library ought to provide a place. Mr. Hofer's gift now makes it certain that the Harvard collection...